Interior panels of the Braque Triptych. c. 1452. Oil on oak panels with frame, 41cm × 34.5cm; 41cm× 68cm; 41cm × 34.5cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.The outer panels shown folded. The skull is likely intended as both a memento mori and a memorial for the patron.
The Braque Triptych (or the Braque Family Triptych) is a c. 1452 oil-on-oak altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. When open, its three half-length panels reveal, from left to right, John the Baptist, The Virgin Mary with Jesus and Saint John the Evangelist, and on the right, Mary Magdalene. When the wings are closed, the work shows a vanitas motif of a skull and cross.
The Braque Triptych is the only surviving devotional work by van der Weyden known to be painted for private rather than public display.[1] The altarpiece was probably commissioned by either Jehan Braque of Tournai or, more likely, his wife Catherine de Brabant – possibly after Jehan's sudden and early death in 1452. The couple had been married for only a brief period. Catherine was much younger than her husband; when they married in 1450 or early 1451, she was 20 and some 12 or 13 years his junior. She evidently held a deep and lasting affection for him. When she died, almost 50 years after him, she had asked to be buried alongside him, despite remarrying years earlier.[2]
The BraqueTriptych (or the Braque Family Triptych) is a c. 1452 oil-on-oak altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. When open...
The outer panels of Rogier van der Weyden's BraqueTriptych (c. 1452) show the skull of the patron displayed on the inner panels. The bones rest on a...
Romano (triptych completed by c.1455) Water and Land Ritual paintings (Chinese Ming dynasty, 1454) Rogier van der Weyden – The BraqueTriptych (c.1452)...
interior decoration of the Grande Galerie. In 1953, a new ceiling by Georges Braque was inaugurated in the Salle Henri II, next to the Salle La Caze. In the...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
innovative, as apparent in his 1442–1445 Miraflores Altarpiece and c. 1452 BraqueTriptych. In these paintings members of the Holy Family appear on the wings...
Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
The Harbaville Triptych (Greek: Τρίπτυχο Αρμπαβίλ) is a Byzantine ivory triptych of the middle of the 10th century with a Deesis and other saints, now...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
of the divine, earthly and hellish realms. As with van der Weyden's BraqueTriptych, the background landscape and arrangements of figures extend across...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
anti-suffragist, collector and benefactor. In 1913 she sold the 15th century BraqueTriptych to the Louvre. Guest was born in 1840 in Grosvenor Square in London...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Apollonia, Right wing of a lost triptych, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, inv. nr. 534C. 51,5 × 27,5 cm. c. 1450–1455 The BraqueTriptych, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
Vermeer: The Astronomer; The Lacemaker van der Weyden: Annunciation Triptych; BraqueTriptych Wtewael: Perseus Freeing Andromeda Spanish El Greco: Christ on...
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